What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hun… - Joshua Reynolds

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What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts?

Joshua Reynolds

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Sir Joshua Reynolds, RA, FRS, FRSA (July 16 1723 – February 23 1792) was an English artist, a founder member of the Literary Club, and the first President of the Royal Academy.

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Alternative Names: Sir Joshua Reynolds • Sir Reynolds • Sir Joshua Reynolds RA • S. J. Reynolds • S.J. Reynolds • Sir Jos Reynolds • Mr. Reynolds • Sir J. Reynodds • Sir Josh. Reynolds • Sir J Reynolds • Sir J R • J. Reynolds • Sir Joshua • Sir J. Reynolds • Sir Jos. Reynolds • Reynolds • J Reynolds • Jos. Reynolds • Sir Josue Reynolds

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You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.

What has pleased, and continues to please, is likely to please again: hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immoveable foundation they must ever stand.

A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature...but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the works of other painters: this appears more humiliating, but is equally true; and no man can be an artist, whatever he may suppose, upon any other terms.

What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts? - Joshua Reynolds

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